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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.

Edward Albee

I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Head Hit Symbol Yourself
The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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Action Character Live Lower Moments Yourself
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
EDWARD ALBEE

Finding Play Writing
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage
When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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Old People Snap Talk Way Yourself
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Attention Fact Myself Nourishment Pay Play Please Reassurance Young
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Careful Prevent Terrible Theatre
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Choice Dog Kill Kindness Method Myself
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Angry Myself Thinking Yourself
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
EDWARD ALBEE

Promote Public Responsibility Theatre

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